Before Sunrise

[larsIU]

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If you go to 2:42, you can see a couple dancing facing you and a younger dude in suspenders. Behind him is another couple, a shorter guy with suspenders dancing with a woman with bangs in a 30s/40s style. Those two taught east coast swing and lindy hop at all the Austin clubs in the 90s. Cool people, great dancers, really into the scene.

I am blanking on their names, but knew them fairly well. Reminds me of a good story: tried to date this beautiful chick who knew them well, too, and was also in the swing dancing scene. She was a waitress at a diner I went to often near the law school (Red River Cafe). She agreed to go out on a date with me the summer I was studying for the bar exam, after I worked up the nerve to ask her out. Great date. Then she thanked me and said can we be friends, I'm a lesbian. Her name, I will never forget.

Damn I miss Austin of the 90s.

WAS HER NAME AMANDA? If so, I get credit.

I doubt it. I’ve never seen it.

Quintessential Gen X movies (post 1980).

80's

Wargames
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Heathers
Stand by Me
Red Dawn
Dead Poets Society

90's

Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Dazed and Confused
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Clerks
The Big Lebowski
Friday
White Men Can't Jump
PCU
Point Break
Fight Club

Of course, this is just a sampling.

 

[BradStevens]

WAS HER NAME AMANDA? If so, I get credit.


Quintessential Gen X movies (post 1980).

80's

Wargames
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Heathers
Stand by Me
Red Dawn
Dead Poets Society

90's

Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Dazed and Confused
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Clerks
The Big Lebowski
Friday
White Men Can't Jump
PCU
Point Break
Fight Club

Of course, this is just a sampling.

God, it really might have been Amanda. And Burke??

How did you know that?

 

[BadWakeboarder]

WAS HER NAME AMANDA? If so, I get credit.


Quintessential Gen X movies (post 1980).

80's

Wargames
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Heathers
Stand by Me
Red Dawn
Dead Poets Society

90's

Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Dazed and Confused
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Clerks
The Big Lebowski
Friday
White Men Can't Jump
PCU
Point Break
Fight Club

Of course, this is just a sampling.

Add Top Gun and Say Anything to your 80s list and you got yourself a stew.

 

[Cortez88]

WAS HER NAME AMANDA? If so, I get credit.


Quintessential Gen X movies (post 1980).

80's

Wargames
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Heathers
Stand by Me
Red Dawn
Dead Poets Society

90's

Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Dazed and Confused
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Clerks
The Big Lebowski
Friday
White Men Can't Jump
PCU
Point Break
Fight Club

Of course, this is just a sampling.

Singles was the soundtrack of our generation. And no Reality Bites? For shame.

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

WAS HER NAME AMANDA? If so, I get credit.


Quintessential Gen X movies (post 1980).

80's

Wargames
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Heathers
Stand by Me
Red Dawn
Dead Poets Society

90's

Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Dazed and Confused
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Clerks
The Big Lebowski
Friday
White Men Can't Jump
PCU
Point Break
Fight Club

Of course, this is just a sampling.

ENCINO MAN. Defined the '90's.

 

[larsIU]

Singles was the soundtrack of our generation. And no Reality Bites? For shame.

In my youth I got pretty far into Monty Python, National Lampoons shit. Literally have never seen Singles (or I don’t remember it).

Started getting into movies with Tarantino. Saw Pulp Fiction Like 8 times in the theater (freshman year at IU). Jaw dropping for young Lars. Coen brothers coming up. Kubrick.

Everybody’s list is different because of how a movie made you feel. Like, I never watched Seinfeld or Friends. Zero interest at the time.

Never liked sitcoms. Except for Silicon Valley.

Damn Pulp Fiction though. First time I really felt film as Art. Also in the pantheon of greatest opening scenes in movie history. Along with Inglouious Basterds.

Best wtf opening though to a movie I can remember though. The Matrix. Just changed the entire game.

Ps. Also 1998.

 

[mcmurtry66]

In my youth I got pretty far into Monty Python, National Lampoons shit. Literally have never seen Singles (or I don’t remember it).

Started getting into movies with Tarantino. Saw Pulp Fiction Like 8 times in the theater (freshman year at IU). Jaw dropping for young Lars. Coen brothers coming up. Kubrick.

Everybody’s list is different because of how a movie made you feel. Like, I never watched Seinfeld or Friends. Zero interest at the time.

Never liked sitcoms. Except for Silicon Valley.

Damn Pulp Fiction though. First time I really felt film as Art. Also in the pantheon of greatest opening scenes in movie history. Along with Inglouious Basterds.

Best wtf opening though to a movie I can remember though. The Matrix. Just changed the entire game.

Ps. Also 1998.

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The life of Brian is perfect

 

[mcmurtry66]

@BradStevens are you listening????

Most of these Gen. X movies are 80s

 

[BradStevens]

@BradStevens are you listening????

Most of these Gen. X movies are 80s

That's fine. I get it. I love 80s movies. I was talking 90s though.

I think of the Gen X vibe as the one from the 90s--Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, etc. Kinda like grunge vs. hair metal--getting away from over production and focusing more on authenticity. Less rah-rah optimism, materialism, and formulaic, and more skepticism, ambiguity, and new forms/post-modern mentality (a little ironic self-reflection and commentary).

 

[mcmurtry66]

That's fine. I get it. I love 80s movies. I was talking 90s though.

I think of the Gen X vibe as the one from the 90s--Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, etc. Kinda like grunge vs. hair metal--getting away from over production and focusing more on authenticity. Less rah-rah optimism, materialism, and formulaic, and more skepticism, ambiguity, and new forms/post-modern mentality (a little ironic self-reflection and commentary).

I don’t care. I just wanted to test out that shout out intro

 

[BradStevens]

I don’t care. I just wanted to test out that shout out intro

God, this is going to be a regular thing now, isn't it?

 

[larsIU]

That's fine. I get it. I love 80s movies. I was talking 90s though.

I think of the Gen X vibe as the one from the 90s--Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, etc. Kinda like grunge vs. hair metal--getting away from over production and focusing more on authenticity. Less rah-rah optimism, materialism, and formulaic, and more skepticism, ambiguity, and new forms/post-modern mentality (a little ironic self-reflection and commentary).

Have you ever seen Go!

 

[BradStevens]

Have you ever seen Go!

Of course

 

[larsIU]

Of course

Sarah Polley is criminally underrated.

 

[Cortez88]

That's fine. I get it. I love 80s movies. I was talking 90s though.

I think of the Gen X vibe as the one from the 90s--Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, etc. Kinda like grunge vs. hair metal--getting away from over production and focusing more on authenticity. Less rah-rah optimism, materialism, and formulaic, and more skepticism, ambiguity, and new forms/post-modern mentality (a little ironic self-reflection and commentary).

I agree with the line you draw. The music changed and so did the movies. It was early 20s folks mainly talking. Looking back, it really resonates with me and not just because I was in the right age group. It resonates because that was what that time was like. No phones or internet. No streaming music or music. My friends and I (and GFs) spent a ton of time together because that’s what we did back then. And we talked about the nonsense early 20 year olds who think they know shit talk about.

Man I miss that shit.

 

[mcmurtry66]

@BradStevens are you awake???? Are you seeing all of this???

 

[BradStevens]

@BradStevens are you awake???? Are you seeing all of this???

I'm here. Vibing with @Cortez88 's post, wondering if we are now best friends.

 

[mcmurtry66]

I'm here. Vibing with @Cortez88 's post, wondering if we are now best friends.

Trust me you’re getting just the right amount of him on here

 

[Cortez88]

Trust me you’re getting just the right amount of him on here

I’m gassing up my truck. I want your ass out at the curb at 4:30 CST for your ass whipping.

 

[Cortez88]

I'm here. Vibing with @Cortez88 's post, wondering if we are now best friends.

Brad I have the Singles soundtrack on vinyl.

 

[mcmurtry66]

I’m gassing up my truck. I want your ass out at the curb at 4:30 CST for your ass whipping.

You know what my elbow looks like. Leave me be

 

[larsIU]

Brad I have the Singles soundtrack on vinyl.

 

[hookyIU1990]

It's becoming painfully clear that the GenXers who were teenagers in the 90s aren't qualified to hold the jocks of those GenXers who were teens in the 80s.

Swing dancing and soccer. Buncha pussies.

 

[larsIU]

It's becoming painfully clear that the GenXers who were teenagers in the 90s aren't qualified to hold the jocks of those GenXers who were teens in the 80s.

Swing dancing and soccer. Buncha pussies.

Man, I gotta tell you. I graduated HS in 1993 and had spent my formative years living on Animal House and other college themed movies with scantily clad women. Then AIDS and grunge kinda hit at the same time and suddenly it's everybody being worried and girls wearing baggy shit everywhere.

Frustrating. I mean, I pushed through but still.....

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Man, I gotta tell you. I graduated HS in 1993 and had spent my formative years living on Animal House and other college themed movies with scantily clad women. Then AIDS and grunge kinda hit at the same time and suddenly it's everybody being worried and girls wearing baggy shit everywhere.

Frustrating. I mean, I pushed through but still.....

I went to school when the low rise pants were coming on.

 

[larsIU]

I went to school when the low rise pants were coming on.

Well **** you then.

Although as I get older, I realize the "unwrapping the present" thing of baggy clothes was kinda neat. Probably why I like sundresses on women so much. Just enough left to chance.

 

[BradStevens]

It's becoming painfully clear that the GenXers who were teenagers in the 90s aren't qualified to hold the jocks of those GenXers who were teens in the 80s.

Swing dancing and soccer. Buncha pussies.

I was a teen in the '80s. Bitch.

 

[hookyIU1990]

I was a teen in the '80s. Bitch.

 

[BradStevens]

Oh, I move like it:

 

[BradStevens]

Man, I gotta tell you. I graduated HS in 1993 and had spent my formative years living on Animal House and other college themed movies with scantily clad women. Then AIDS and grunge kinda hit at the same time and suddenly it's everybody being worried and girls wearing baggy shit everywhere.

Frustrating. I mean, I pushed through but still.....

 

[hookyIU1990]

Oh, I move like it:

 

[larsIU]

Oh, I move like it. You can bet your ass.

Definitely talk like it (why are you so angry and cuss all the time?)

Think like it? Hmmmm, hell probably.

 

[Mark Milton]

WAS HER NAME AMANDA? If so, I get credit.


Quintessential Gen X movies (post 1980).

80's

Wargames
Ferris Bueller
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times
Heathers
Stand by Me
Red Dawn
Dead Poets Society

90's

Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Dazed and Confused
Good Will Hunting
Office Space
Clerks
The Big Lebowski
Friday
White Men Can't Jump
PCU
Point Break
Fight Club

Of course, this is just a sampling.

No Army of Darkness for the 90s movies? For shame.....

 

[larsIU]

No Army of Darkness for the 90s movies? For shame.....

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I stayed out of the horror genre for the most part. I was a big fan, still am with the rise of Robert Eggers, Ari Aster and others.

I think Scream is one of the best horror films ever made. Should be on the list as well.

So I'll update:

80's Horror:

Lost Boys
Evil Dead 1/2
Predator
Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm Street
Alien(s)

90's Horror:

Army of Darkness (wink to Mark)
Scream
Blair Witch Project
Tremors
Lake Placid (might be the best B movie ever made)
Silence of the Lambs